{"id":291,"date":"2026-10-12T23:46:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T23:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mykalt.com\/blog\/?p=291"},"modified":"2026-10-14T09:16:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T09:16:55","slug":"sports-and-heritage-meet-at-versailles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mykalt.com\/blog\/sports-and-heritage-meet-at-versailles\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports and Heritage Meet at Versailles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 2,000 athletes were expected to swim in the Grand Canal at Versailles for a new Ironman 70.3 event. The race shows how cities use historic settings to host modern sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well-run sporting events bring visitors, local spending and shared experiences. They also need careful planning to protect public spaces and keep events open to local communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/sports\/article\/2026\/10\/11\/triathletes-swim-in-versailles-grand-canal-as-france-continues-to-mix-sports-and-heritage_6758474_9.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the source<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 2,000 athletes were expected to swim in the Grand Canal at Versailles for a new Ironman 70.3 event. The race shows how cities use historic settings to host modern sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mykalt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mykalt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mykalt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mykalt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mykalt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mykalt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/mykalt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mykalt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mykalt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mykalt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mykalt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}